It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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